Chapter Summaries

Shengyang Yue learned that the Sun Moon Team’s tournament result would be declared a tie and that he, Ye Xishui, and other students would go to Shrek as exchange students. He ended his arrangement with Ye Xishui, leaving her heartbroken but still determined to finish the Soul Tool she had promised him.

• Shengyang Yue told Kong Deming that the competition’s result did not matter to him, and Kong announced the planned exchange program to Shrek.
• Shengyang Yue told Ye Xishui that their deal would end once they arrived at Shrek and that they would go their separate ways.
• Ye Xishui accepted the separation, insisted on completing Shengyang Yue’s close-combat Soul Tool, and left the pavilion.
• Ye Xishui returned to her dormitory, broke down in tears, then resumed work on the unfinished Soul Tool.
• Shengyang Yue crossed Ye Xishui’s name out of his notebook and noted that two people’s fortune remained.

Several months later, Shengyang Yue emerged from seclusion as a level seventy-two Soul Sage with a hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring and joined the exchange students departing for Shrek Academy. When Kong Deming doubted the ring’s age, Shengyang Yue offered to prove it, ready to reveal his strength publicly.

• Shengyang Yue completed his seclusion and confirmed that his Dragon Soul and Elder Yi’s soul spirit method had nurtured a hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring.
• Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tianxin gossiped about the strained distance between Shengyang Yue and Ye Xishui, while Kong Deming rebuked Xiao Hongchen for neglecting his assignment.
• Shengyang Yue’s exposed Soul Sage aura surprised the gathering, and Ye Xishui admired his breakthrough while Xu Tianxin and Xiao Hongchen compared his talent with theirs.
• Shengyang Yue arrived and told Kong Deming that he had absorbed a hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring.
• Kong Deming accused Shengyang Yue of trying to fool him, and Shengyang Yue offered to prove the ring’s age.

Shengyang Yue revealed his extraordinary soul rings to Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Academy students before the group prepared to leave for Shrek Academy. As the exchange trip began, Ye Xishui remained resentful over their ended transaction, while Shengyang Yue kept his distance.

• Shengyang Yue released his seven soul rings, stunning everyone, and Kong Deming noticed that his third ring had turned black.
• Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tianxin called Shengyang Yue a monster, and he explained that his relationship with Ye Xishui had been transactional and warned them not to trouble her.
• Xu Tianxin invited Shengyang Yue to meet his family, but Shengyang Yue refused to get involved in imperial family affairs.
• Elder Chen warned the students about Shrek Academy and told them to prepare for departure under Kong Deming's lead.
• Kong Deming led the ready students out, officially beginning the exchange program.

Wang Xinshi told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Shrek Academy had secretly lost the competition to the Sun Moon Team, whose captain Shengyang Yue wielded an Ultimate Space dragon Martial Soul. He arranged an exchange program that would bring Shengyang Yue and Long Xiaoyao to Shrek Academy, where the elders planned to recruit Shengyang Yue.

• Wang Xinshi revealed that Shrek Academy had lost the competition to the Sun Moon Team, but the result had been announced as a draw to prevent renewed conflict.
• Wang Xinshi explained that Mu En and the others had lost to Shengyang Yue, the Sun Moon Team's new captain, who possessed an Ultimate Space dragon Martial Soul.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders decided to use Shengyang Yue's exchange visit to persuade him to join Shrek Academy.
• Wang Xinshi told the elders that Long Xiaoyao from Di Ao Academy would also participate in the exchange program, but the elders focused on Shengyang Yue.
• Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Academy students reached the outskirts of Shrek City, waited for Zhao Xin to appear, and then continued toward the city.

Zhao Xin brought Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Academy students to Shrek Academy, where Shengyang Yue provoked the hostile Shrek students by calling them defeated losers. Zhao Xin silenced the confrontation and arranged separate dormitory rooms for the exchange students, while Shengyang Yue wondered how the Shrek students would react to their better accommodations.

• Zhao Xin met Kong Deming and led him and the Sun Moon students toward the gathered Shrek Inner Court students.
• Shengyang Yue called the Shrek students defeated losers, prompting one student to challenge him to a duel.
• Zhao Xin slapped the challenger twice, threatened to expel him, and apologized to Shengyang Yue for the students' behavior.
• Kong Deming recognized Zhao Xin's attempt to keep Shengyang Yue from learning the truth about the competition's result.
• Zhao Xin offered each Sun Moon exchange student a separate dormitory room, and Shengyang Yue considered using the better accommodations to provoke the Shrek students.

After the Soul Master Competition defeat, Mu En regained his resolve with Wang Xinshi’s guidance and was sent to collect Long Xiaoyao. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Academy exchange students moved into a newly built dormitory, while Long Xiaoyao headed toward Shrek believing he would share the Outer Court’s shabby accommodations.

• Wang Xinshi reminded Mu En that failure was not frightening and urged him to recover from his defeat by Shengyang Yue.
• Mu En regained his fighting spirit, and Wang Xinshi told him to collect Long Xiaoyao and take him to the Outer Court dormitory for the exchange students’ first year.
• Zhao Xin showed Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Academy students the new dormitory Shrek Academy had built especially for them.
• Mu En met Long Xiaoyao at the gates of Shrek City and explained that exchange students had to spend a year in the Outer Court.
• Long Xiaoyao accepted Mu En’s claim that all exchange students received the same treatment and expected to live in the shabby Outer Court dormitories.

Zhao Xin showed Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Academy students their lavish new dormitories, while Mu En brought Long Xiaoyao to a dusty, cramped room. Shengyang Yue discovered that Ye Xishui had been assigned as his roommate, the result of Zhao Xin and Kong Deming’s arrangement.

• Zhao Xin led Kong Deming, Shengyang Yue, Ye Xishui, and the other Sun Moon Academy students through dormitories modeled after their own academy and showed them a luxurious room.
• Zhao Xin and Kong Deming discussed room assignments, and Kong Deming agreed to Zhao Xin’s suggestion that Shengyang Yue and Ye Xishui share a room.
• Mu En noticed a new building near the Martial Soul Academy but took Long Xiaoyao to an old dormitory, where they found a cramped, dusty room and began cleaning it.
• Shengyang Yue found Ye Xishui waiting in their assigned room and realized they had been made roommates despite their falling out.

Shengyang Yue avoided Ye Xishui’s questions while Kong Deming warned him that Shrek Academy was openly trying to recruit him. At the cafeteria, Zhao Xin gave the Sun Moon Empire exchange students special treatment, leaving Mu En and Long Xiaoyao to accept his explanation and head for food.

• Ye Xishui tried to draw Shengyang Yue into conversation, but he brushed her off and left the dormitory.
• Kong Deming asked Shengyang Yue about his tension with Ye Xishui, then warned him that Shrek Academy was targeting him.
• Mu En and Long Xiaoyao reached the Outer Court cafeteria and found it had no seats, so Mu En explained its rules and led Long Xiaoyao to the serving window.
• Zhao Xin brought Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire exchange students into the cafeteria and said their meals would be delivered to their dormitory starting the next day.
• Mu En explained to Long Xiaoyao that the exchange students’ special status made the arrangement necessary to avoid provoking the Sun Moon Empire, and they turned away without greeting the group.
• Shengyang Yue noticed Mu En and Long Xiaoyao but missed the chance to see their reaction to the exchange students’ special treatment.

As the group camped in the Far North, Ye Xishui told Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen about Shengyang Yue, while Jin Tianming endured her teasing. That night, she questioned Jin Tianming about the Holy Lord and his possible replacement, saying she would understand the truth once she obtained the memories he had mentioned.

• Ye Xishui complained about Shengyang Yue, and Meng Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Hongchen joined in condemning him.
• Ye Xishui threatened to take out her anger on Jin Tianming, but the three kids defended him.
• Ye Xishui revealed that Shengyang Yue had taught her spatial abilities, and Xiao Hongchen asked Jin Tianming to teach him the same skills.
• Ye Xishui remembered her time with Shengyang Yue as Jin Tianming studied Soul Tool principles beside the campfire.
• Ye Xishui asked Jin Tianming about the Holy Lord and whether he had considered replacing him, then said she would learn the truth by obtaining the memories Jin Tianming had mentioned.

Jin Tianming, Ye Xishui, and Electrolux set out to find a scorpion in the Far North, while Huo Yuhao and the others followed under Electrolux’s protection. Ye Xishui’s power drew out a hostile young girl from beneath the snow.

• Ye Xishui told Jin Tianming she had found the scorpion’s location, and he summoned Electrolux as a safeguard.
• Jin Tianming warned Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and the other child to stay beside Electrolux, but Electrolux agreed to let them follow.
• Jin Tianming and Moxie caught up with Ye Xishui as they flew toward the Far North’s central region.
• Ye Xishui unleashed her aura and warned Jin Tianming to prepare for a fight.
• A young girl erupted from beneath the snow and confronted Ye Xishui, accusing the humans of being audacious.

Ye Xishui used spatial power to suppress the Ice Empress, and Jin Tianming tried to bargain with her before threatening to kill her. The Snow Empress arrived to rescue Bingbing, and Electrolux flew up to confront her.

• The Ice Empress threatened Ye Xishui and Jin Tianming, but Ye Xishui suppressed her with spatial power.
• Electrolux explained that Ye Xishui could not fully wield the borrowed power, then led Xiao Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and Meng Hongchen closer.
• Jin Tianming offered the Ice Empress a deal, but she refused until he threatened to have Moxie kill her.
• The Snow Empress arrived and demanded that the humans release Bingbing, while Jin Tianming asked Electrolux to handle her.
• Electrolux flew to meet the Snow Empress and advised her to recognize the times.

Ye Xishui used her spatial power to overpower the Titan Snow Demon King while Electrolux defeated the Snow Empress. Jin Tianming and his allies left all three Far North kings captured, with the fate of the Snow Empress and Ice Empress unresolved.

• Ye Xishui intercepted the Titan Snow Demon King and turned his blizzard against him by controlling the space around them.
• Electrolux overwhelmed the Snow Empress with successive waves of undead, while Jin Tianming taunted the immobilized Ice Empress and threatened to turn her into a soul ring.
• The Ice Empress admitted that the Snow Empress would lose and pleaded with Jin Tianming to spare her.
• Electrolux bound the injured Snow Empress and threw her down beside Jin Tianming, where Moxie shielded him from the snow.
• Ye Xishui returned with the Titan Snow Demon King compressed and immobilized, then tossed him beside the others.

Jin Tianming forced Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the Titan Snow Demon King to accept his terms, including making Ice Empress a Soul Ring while promising other plans for Snow Empress. Ye Xishui returned with two wounded soul beasts and several injured people, whom Jin Tianming asked about.

• Ice Empress demanded an explanation for Ye Xishui's spatial ability, but Ye Xishui ignored her and left to find more soul beasts.
• Snow Empress warned Jin Tianming that killing the Far North's Three Heavenly Kings could trigger a beast tide, but he dismissed her concern and gave the three a choice between cooperation and death.
• Jin Tianming revealed his plan and said Ice Empress had to become a Soul Ring; Snow Empress offered to take her place, but he refused.
• Ice Empress agreed first, and Snow Empress and the Titan Snow Demon King eventually agreed as well.
• Ye Xishui returned with two barely breathing soul beasts and several seriously injured people, whom she called fools who did not know their place.

Jin Tianming interrogated Lin Tou, a Star Luo Empire Rank 9 Soul Engineer, and revealed that he already knew the man's secret mission to capture a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Far North. After Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen finished absorbing their soul rings, Jin Tianming had Ye Xishui turn Lin Tou into a puppet.

• Jin Tianming revived Lin Tou with Life Essence and questioned him about his faction and purpose in the Far North.
• Lin Tou claimed he had come with companions to conduct a Soul Tool experiment, while Jin Tianming inferred that they had planned to capture a soul beast undergoing its tribulation.
• Lin Tou offered Jin Tianming a Rank 9 Soul Tool, but Ye Xishui dismissed his status and revealed her own Soul Tool expertise.
• After Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen finished absorbing their soul rings, Jin Tianming ordered Ye Xishui to refine Lin Tou into a puppet.
• Lin Tou tried to bargain with a secret, but Jin Tianming revealed that he already knew about the Soul Tool designed to restrain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast during its tribulation.

Ye Xishui refined Lin Tou into a puppet while Jin Tianming’s actions unsettled the Far North, and Mu En and Long Xiaoyao sensed the disturbance from Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Moyan and Dugu Luo plotted to use a new toxin against Tang San, and Ning Tian revealed that Dai Huabin had become Tang San’s roommate.

• Ye Xishui began refining Lin Tou into a puppet, and Jin Tianming admitted he had deliberately driven Lin Tou into despair.
• The Snow Empress and the Ice Empress worried they had joined a group of Evil Soul Masters, while the Titan Snow Demon King waited for his spatial restriction to be lifted.
• Mu En and Long Xiaoyao sensed unrest in the Far North and feared a calamity, but returned to discuss the next Soul Master Competition.
• Moyan dismissed the Far North disturbance as Jin Tianming’s doing, then heard Dugu Luo describe an incurable toxin she wanted to use against Tang San.
• Ning Tian teased Wu Feng and Lei Ze about Dai Huabin, then revealed that he was sharing a room with Tang San again.

Lei Ze, Black, and Bai Yu discussed Moyan’s plan involving Tang San and considered forming an alliance against her. Lei Ze refused to fight and said he would rather wait to die and return to the original body.

• Lei Ze left Ning Tian and Wu Feng to speak privately with Black and Bai Yu about Moyan’s plan to make Tang San live up to his title.
• Lei Ze refused to take pictures, and Black suggested arranging for Beibei to take his place.
• Bai Yu proposed recording Tang San’s performance for Tang Ya and the people in the heavens, and Black and Lei Ze agreed.
• Bai Yu asked Lei Ze to join an alliance against Moyan, and Black explained that the clones might need to unite against her strength.
• Lei Ze said his better plan was to wait for death, and he accepted Black’s warning that he would be eliminated first and revived last.

Tang San failed another Soul Tool assessment, then Dugu Luo struck him with a tracking dagger carrying a poison that would activate when he used the Mysterious Heaven Skill. Back in his dormitory, Tang San began cultivating, unknowingly triggering the poison as Dai Huabin remained helpless nearby.

• Lei Ze gave Ning Tian and Wu Feng an evasive answer about his conversation, and Ning Tian suggested they eat.
• Fan Yu ended Tang San’s eighth failed Soul Tool assessment and told him to return for another in two days.
• Dugu Luo hit Tang San’s shoulder with a tracking dagger, then retrieved and destroyed it after he fled.
• Dugu Luo told Moyan that the poison would activate when Tang San circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill, as they waited for others to act.
• Tang San returned to his dormitory, treated his wound, and began cultivating while Dai Huabin lay unable to move.
• The poison inside Tang San awakened as soon as he activated the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Beibei persuaded Xu Sanshi to leave the Inner Court and confront Tang San, while Zhang Lexuan pretended to break through to Soul Douluo to cover their escape. In the Outer Court, Tang San’s strange behavior horrified Dai Huabin and the two intruders who came to record it, as Mu En realized Beibei and Xu Sanshi were missing and rushed toward the Outer Court with Long Xiaoyao.

• Beibei woke Xu Sanshi and persuaded him to seek revenge by warning that Tang San might take Nan Nan from him.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi followed a note out of the Inner Court while Zhang Lexuan began a staged breakthrough to Soul Douluo.
• Tang San struggled with the violent Mysterious Heaven Skill and mistook the helpless Dai Huabin for Xiao Wu.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi entered Tang San’s dormitory, were shocked by what they saw, and began recording it with Soul Tools.
• Black lowered the Moon-Gazing Mirror, and Bai Yu sent Tang Ya toward the dormitory as another actor in their plan.
• Mu En discovered Beibei and Xu Sanshi were gone, found Zhang Lexuan appearing to break through, and set off for the Outer Court with Long Xiaoyao.

Tang Ya and the others found Tang San acting like a crazed beast and attacking Dai Huabin, while Mu En and Long Xiaoyao intervened to stop him. Dai Huabin recovered enough to sit up, but Mu En demanded an explanation from the stunned witnesses.

• Tang Ya entered the room, saw Tang San behaving wildly, and collapsed in shock before trying to stop him with Beibei.
• Bai Yu sensed two powerful presences, and she and Black headed toward the Outer Court as Mu En and Long Xiaoyao searched for Beibei.
• Mu En and Long Xiaoyao arrived and separated Tang San from the badly injured Dai Huabin, while Tang Ya explained that Tang San seemed poisoned and out of control.
• Mu En questioned Beibei, Tang Ya, and Xu Sanshi about what had happened, but the three could not explain the scene.
• Dai Huabin sat up, then noticed everyone staring at him.

Elder Zhuang confirmed that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had healed Dai Huabin with powerful life energy, but found no toxin in Tang San and concluded his strange behavior had another cause. Dai Huabin accused Tang San of assaulting him while he was incapacitated, and Mu En struck Tang Ya when she defended Tang San, leaving Mu En to consider what to do next.

• Elder Zhuang discovered that Dai Huabin had recovered and that life energy inside his body had healed him, confirming Mu En’s suspicions about Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass.
• Elder Zhuang and Mu En examined Tang San and found no toxins, concluding that his behavior seemed to come from going too long without release.
• Dai Huabin told Mu En that Tang San had nearly ruined his innocence, while Tang Ya accused him of lying to frame Tang San.
• Mu En slapped Tang Ya and then lost his temper when Beibei glared at him as he rushed to help her.
• Elder Zhuang ruled out Dugu Luo’s toxins, and Mu En said he would think further about how to deal with Tang San.